This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: kaydoubleu27 Surnames: BROADHEAD Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.yks.general/15409/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi everyone, I've hit a brick wall regarding tracing the birth of my ancestor Selina Broadhead, born in 1844. The various census returns that I have found for her state that she was born in Wakefield, unknown or Goole but as her father and a number of her siblings were born in Sandal Magna, I am assuming the Wakefield entry is correct. However the only Selina Broadhead's birth that I can find in the birth index is in Sheffield. I sent for this certificate but it's the wrong parents. I can find no other entry for a Selina Broadhead on the birth index or the IGI. Through the IGI I have found her fathers birth (Benjamin, baptised January 1815) in Sandal Magna. Her mother is Sarah Crowther (confirmed when I obtained Selina's sibling Ada Louise birth cert) baptised 1810 in Wragby. Selina's older sibings were baptised in Sandal Magna but I can't find the younger one's on IGI. I have searched all the surrounding parishes on the IGI for any Broadhead births in case her first name is incorrect or mis-transcribed but no luck. I have her marriage cert which confirms her father as Benjamin. Apart from literally searching every parish in Yorkshire on the IGI does anyone have any idea as to what I can do next? It makes the search rather more difficult as Benjamin was a 'waterman' and on the 1851 census the family were in York on a 'coal vessel laid on the River Ross/Foss' so she may well have been born anywhere but that doesn't explain why her entry is not on the birth index especially as I have found all of her siblings on the birth index apart from her youngest brother. If anyone can help or can suggest where I can go next I would be extremely grateful. Many thanks Kim Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.